β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.
β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.